Louisville Gets Back on the Road to Atlanta

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville men's basketball heads back on the road to face the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Saturday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. at McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta. The game will be broadcast on The CW.

The Cardinals are on a 10-game winning streak that includes nine ACC games and five league road games. UofL most recently finished January undefeated by beating Wake Forest 72-59 on Tuesday evening. Georgia Tech has lost five of its last six contests, most recently losing 71-68 at Notre Dame.

Louisville leads the all-time series between the two programs 27-15; the series dates back to 1950. Louisville holds a 7-6 edge on the road and has won five of the last six games against the Yellow Jackets.

GAME 22
Listen: Cardinal Sports Network (WLCL 93.9 FM & WGTK 970 AM flagship);
Streaming (Paul Rogers, pxp | Bob Valvano, analysis)
Watch: The CW (Thom Brennaman, pxp | Brian Oliver, analysis)
Live Stats: Georgia Tech Statbroadcast

CARDINAL NOTES

Louisville is ranked in a national poll, coming in at No. 21 in the AP Poll and No. 22 in the USA Today Coaches Poll on Jan. 27.
Louisville's 10-game winning streak is the longest winning streak since the Cardinals won 10 in a row between Jan. 7 and Feb. 8, 2020.
Four of Louisville's five losses have all come to teams now ranked in the AP Top 25: No. 2 Duke (18-2), No. 8 Tennessee (17-4), No. 12 Kentucky (15-5), and No. 23 Ole Miss (16-5). As of Jan. 20, those teams, along with Oklahoma (15-5) are a combined 81-21.
At SMU on Jan. 21, Chucky Hepburn broke the UofL single game assists record with 16. Reyne Smith broke the program's single game made 3's record with 10. Louisville became the only DI team this century to have a player with 10+ 3's and 15+ assists in the same game. The Last NBA team to do it was the Warriors with Klay Thompson (10 3PM) and Steph Curry (15 AST) on Nov. 20, 2022.
Against North Carolina on Jan. 1, Chucky Hepburn made 16 free throws, tying the program record for free throws made in a single game.
Louisville played five ranked opponents by Dec. 14. The Cardinals have the 12th best strength of schedule according to KenPom as of Jan. 26.
As of Jan. 30, Louisville is fifth in the country in 3-point attempts per game (31.3).
As of Jan. 26, Chucky Hepburn is 11th in the country in assists per game (6.4) and 13th total assists (135). He's also 11th in total steals (51) and 13th in steals per game (2.43). Reyne Smith is leading the country in 3's per game (3.90) and total 3-pointers (82). He's third in total 3-point attempts (201).
Sophomore forward James Scott is second in the country in dunks as of Jan. 30 with 49 makes on the year, according to Bart Torvik. He leads the ACC in that category and is now seventh on Louisville's dunks in a single season list.
Senior guard Reyne Smith was named ACC Player of the Week on Dec. 23 for his 27-point performance at Florida State. It was just the third time in the program's 11 years in the ACC that Louisville has had multiple ACC Player of the Week awards as Chucky Hepburn also earned that title on Dec. 2

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Players Mentioned

Chucky Hepburn

James Scott

Reyne Smith

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